Factors associated with tobacco smoking status among Aboriginal youth participants and attendees of the 2002 North American Indigenous Games.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Description: Objective. To determine if specified demographic, environmental and attitudinal factors are associated with smoking status among a sample of Aboriginal youth at the 2002 North American Indigenous Games.Methods. A survey inquiring about tobacco use and factors that have been shown in the literature to be associated with smoking status was implemented. These factors were described, then stratified by games participation to investigate the association between the independent variables and smoking status in bivariate and logistic regression analyses.Conclusions. Two environmental factors, one demographic factor and one attitudinal factor were associated with smoking status among these Aboriginal youth.Results. There were 570 survey participants between the ages of 12 to 22 (53.5% female) that met the inclusion criteria, of which 32% were current smokers. Age and peer smoking were associated with smoking status among the non-games participants and peer smoking was associated with smoking status among the games participants.
Notes: Adviser:  Jeff Reading.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0837.

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